X Factor winner Joe McElderry is indebted to judge Simon Cowell, after landing the number one at the second week of trying. Joe McElderry’s “The Climb” landed top spot at the weekend beating Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the name of”, to secure the number one in the singles chart as we enter 2010. [...]
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Simon Cowell to Host Rage Gig?
Rage Against the Machine plan to stage a free UK gig next year and claim to have invited Simon Cowell to host it! The band beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry by over 50,000 copies after fans Jon and Tracy Morter set up a Facebook group encouraging people to challenge the TV series’ hold on [...]
X Factors Joe Loses Out to RATM Facebook Challenge
For the first time since 2004, Simon Cowells’s talent show hasn’t sat unchallenged in the festive singles chart. The fierce Facebook campaign has led to the toppling of the X Factor’s yuletide monopoly in place since its inception in 2004. Joe fell short of the Rage Against the Machine sales of over 500,000 downloads by [...]
Fans rage against Simon Cowell’s X Factor, as Joe McElderry is beaten to Xmas No1
It was one of the closest races to win the covetted Christmas number one slot in a long time, but this year’s winners Rage Against The Machine pipped X Factor winner Joe McElderry at the final hurdle. With download sales of over half a million, Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the name of” track [...]
Cowell fumes as Macca backs Rage Against Machine over X Factor Joe in Xmas No1 race
Only days after appearing on the final, Sir Paul McCartney has left X Factor boss Simon Cowell fuming after backing Rage Against The Machine in the battle to be Christmas number one, over winner Joe McElderry. About the hotly tipped contest, Sir Paul said: “Who knows which will be Xmas No1? But, you know, I [...]
X Factor winner to become the new Zac Efron?
In what had been billed as the closest final in the history of the television talent show that is the X Factor, Joe McElderry beat call centre worker Olly Murs to the biggest prize in the UK music business. In front of an estimated television audience of 20 million McElderry (a performing arts student from [...]
